On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:39:31 +0000, Bo Grimes wrote:

> >The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
> >adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally,
> >then install the bootloader for the other distros into the root
> >partition of that distro, instead of the MBR. 
 
> Right now my MBR is on my Windows drive (hda1), and Linux is on my 
> second drive.  (I don't remember if it's slaved or not or if it
> matters).
> 
> This being the case, is my memory correct that the bios will try to boot
> from hda, and if I put Grub on my current Linux distro instead of the 
> MBR, I'll have problems?

You must already have a suitable bootloader running on hda in order to be
able to boot your current distro. I'm suggesting you install the
bootloader to the root partition for your NEW distro, then chainload that
from your current bootloader. It means you don't have to disturb your
existing boot setup, so you shouldn't have any problems.


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